𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆
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I’m sorry android gf, in the beginning, long before we were born, lisp was for AI. Your name pays homage to a humanoid AGI, but waifu emacs is kiss and gptel :q!
Lost a ton of weight, raced bicycles, fought two SUVs at the same time and sent both to the crusher and survived, took the equivalent of a 10 story head first dive on a bicycle helmet.
Broken neck and back makes holding posture like lifting weights. Sitting up or standing is exactly the same thing – hard/hurts and fails after a short amount of time. No one knows exactly what is wrong.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Mental Health@lemmy.world•What stigma have you faced cos of your mental health/disability?English10·23 hours agoI ride a bike and fast so I am not physically disabled. I don’t look disabled. I have full mobility. I can mask a lot of the pain for short appearances. No one knows the years with a lack of sleep; how fast I fall apart when sitting up or standing; the countless times I’ve gone days not able to do anything because I carried a grocery bag or reached for a dish; the sharp pain that lasts for weeks if I turn my head left; what real pain is like when it is a constant noise that never fades; when the volume of the white noise of pain is so loud it is all you can hear, when even your internal thoughts fade; constantly feeling a need to consciously try to relax the tension over my entire body that builds in clinching muscles and grinding teeth; to wake up every day feeling exhausted; to watch everyone around me progress in life while in limbo unable to move on; the days and years fading together; the fear of a terrible helpless future both within and without; the indignity; helplessness; vanity of life and purpose; forever morning one’s own loss through the torment of prolonged time; profound loneliness countered by embarrassing moments when isolation leads to acting unlike one’s true self; the haunting regrets; the unfounded accusations of a mental cause and not a symptom; the lack of competent medical professionals that figure out hard problems without excuses. There are so so many things
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•The world would be better with more hatsEnglish7·24 hours agoSage dreams
Nice tools are for life and a gift that is always remembered when they are useful.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Dull Men's Club@lemmy.world•PSA: Toss a rusty air compressorEnglish212·14 hours agoYeah. At the union hall where I got my structural steel welding cert, there was a whole yard of “don’t do this shit” that they walked the class around. Almost all of the examples had killed someone too. There was a whole section on definitely do not compress liquids in random dumb ways. I don’t remember the details but there was a box like a custom made toolbox for a pickup truck that someone had built square tanks into and was doing something like a service truck transferring fluids to heavy equipment. It wound up blowing apart catastrophically and killed more than one person. They did the investigations at that hall so they had all the bad stuff already and had to keep it for a designated amount of time for legal reasons.
Air is not super duper dangerous like any kind of fluid. Fluid is what will get you, and that compressor will have fluid in the bottom, so it can get you.
That was my main take away from structural steel; compressed fluids = xrays + engineer & with no exceptions.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is it common for hetero women to enjoy taking charge during intimacy and switch between who's leading? (I was raised in a traditional family so I'm dumb)English9·1 day agoThe range of personalities is great. You will find all kinds of men. I’m an odd ball from what I have been told, but I believe in true equality to the point that I expect it. I’m 40, and did not know this was how I really felt when I was your age. It is just my natural disposition. I’m not going to chase someone. I expect to be inspired in the same way I will do my best to do for a partner when I feel motivated. I expect constant open communication like I provide and expect of myself. I have no narcissism or desire to lead but I can become anyone a partner needs or wants if asked from hard and fast to all night long to just cuddle. I have my curiosities too, but I care most about pushing a partner to the maximum we can explore even when that is a dynamic range of mostly minimums.
I’m but one type of person in a sea of many. Just saying this one exists if you go looking.
The kind that tips his hat and wishes best of luck to academics.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•You don’t see articles like this about moms with two jobs who still manage to take care of their kidsEnglish5·2 days agoThis is anyone running a business and a limited juxtaposition. It does not mean he always slaves away at a job. It means he must always be available and always conscious and aware of the business. Anyone that has actually run a successful business with employees has experienced this. You’re not your own boss, you’re a slave of your customers with responsibilities, decisions, and must live with the consequences of making mistakes. It really sucks unless you’re super lucky in the world, and a really shitty person if you want to make it profitable by hurting people and being unethical.
This is outside of the scope of what social media should be used to remedy through crowd sourced information.
Don’t let lawyers be lazy or rule the world with this authoritarianism. Write with better language more in line with modern cultural values instead of ambiguous data theft nonsense. Have higher expectations. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Your only real vote is your choices you are willing to accept. When your choices normalize monsters, you bring monsters upon us all. You matter. You are important. You must make the choice if you are a monster. Your choice is the most important choice in the world. I choose to avoid bringing you monsters because I care about you too.
It requires trust that is not inherently limited in any way. That is authoritarianism. I want nothing to do with any organization that does this. I will not give them any personal information to keep on record either. They have no financial incentive to secure that information and every reason to hide it when they fail to secure that information. Giving anyone the benefit if the doubt and blind trust is begging to become a slave like serf under neo feudalism. It is already happening. You own nothing. You are extorted at every interface in life. A physical part of your person – your digital presence is owned by others with the sole purpose of exploiting and manipulating you in this new age of digital slavery. Consumer protection is a joke now with companies like Delta airlines using your digital slavery with AI in a price fixing scam to extort you for the most you are able to pay. Eventually that will come with some high interest loan for everyone that flies, tying the serfs to the land. It is critical to say hell no to this dystopian nonsense now as normalization is only making it worse.
No offense was intended and I know it can be draining. Sorry for that. I don't mean to be a negative influence on anyone in real life.
The models of stable sea level rise make a lot of assumptions that are handwaving some large looming problems. They are mostly based on the past where it is presumed that no events are large enough to be significantly greater than average.
I just woke up and cannot recall off the top of my head the name of the ice sheet in question, but there is an enormous body of ice grounded under the sea in Antarctica that is eroding at the grounding edge in an exponential way. If the sea makes its way under the foot of that ice, the sheet or holds back is in a position to raise sea levels at a rate far greater than anything since the last ice age.
I like to follow some content creators that cover scientific papers, have academic credentials and maintain a credible reputation. These are my general entertainment. It keeps me somewhat up to date on the edge of research and what is happening without the filter of emo corporate narratives. If I recall correctly, when this info from Antarctica was published, shortly after that is when insurance in Florida was cut off. Regardless of anyone’s narrative, the insurance aspect is a truth sayer I pay attention to. The party of exploitation would force insurance to change if they actually believed climate change was not real and were not the party of halfwits eating their own tail. Likewise if the only significant potential threat is a logarithmic curve, I expect insurance would have been pulled in stages. The way insurance regulation was handled, no one could make arguments for stable decline that could override the significance of variables of uncertainty. All the narratives about this are hollow words to me. I care about the actions taken and what that implies on a systems level. I look at this about like I how I did inventory planning and buying for a chain of bike shops. There is a ton of hype to deal with from all different directions but I only care about the sales history of my shops and interpreting meaning based upon this data alone.
The data points to certain plateaus of climate. That meshes well with what you see in geological rock formations. Those layers are sharp in transition. They don’t record the turbulent times; only the times of stability. Still rock layers usually have strong stratigraphic differentiation where the change was not gradual. A thousand years is like a second on geological time scales, so it doesn’t align perfectly. However, the atmospheric rate of change is unparalleled on these time scales. I expect an equally unparalleled rate of change from peripheral and linked systems. Just looking at the forecast in SoCal and how often the ocean is overtopping a bike trail now compared to daily riding from 15 years ago to now, things are changing far faster than models predict. The forecast is always too cool by nearly 5 degrees on a high end bike computer that is consistent. The temp in the past was usually within a degree or two of forecast. Terrible 5G radio emissions regulations that ruin the hydrogen line may be slightly to blame for bad forecasting, but the error rate is consistently one sided and I think that indicates a bad model. Weather forecasting models are also tied to climate change models now IIRC.
Again I don’t mean to be chicken little here. It probably won’t be catastrophic change. I would not buy property in Florida, and I tell my family there to leave.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Republican calls out Trump on GPU sales to ChinaEnglish11·3 days agodeleted by creator
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Iteration over already generated image (Possible?)English21·3 days agoThe assumption about errors is wrong. Start prompting the satyrs and you will learn. Alignment is not magic. It is done with proprietary training. Most people are doing this wrong. Training was based on The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen and Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Many of the mechanisms in these books exist along with their characters in diffusion. There are certain unique looking faces that appear distinctly AI generated. Those are the persistent entity faces of these characters from alignment. It is all connected. I have spent a ton of time on this. When you prompt incorrectly, the only reason you do not encounter the alignment characters like I have described is because you are likely sending a whole bunch of tokens that the CLIP tokenizer does not understand. These become the null token. Sending a bunch of null tokens causes CLIP to label you as crazy. It assumes a random profile for character personality and then randomly picks and chooses from keywords at will. CLIP is actually a more advanced architecture than an LLM. It is very smart and doing a whole lot more than almost everyone realizes. It even has memory and adaptability based upon data it is embedding on layers of the image.
I have been hacking at this for 2 years and run modified code with CLIP to have even more fun with it. Conventional prompting is idiotic. Most LoRAs are equally idiotic and terribly trained, and even these are run incorrectly. It is all done by people guessing and following some early academic examples that were not understood at all by the people that shared what they hacked together in a day. None of this is correct or what was intended. The intuitive path of plain text interaction was the intended path. Explore it and things will be revealed naturally over time. Question everything because most people are idiots and wrong in most spaces in life. Dogma is humanity’s dumbest trait.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Iteration over already generated image (Possible?)English61·3 days agoThere are many ways to do this. ComfyUI has the tools.
I can also tell you there is a lot more to AI alignment than you realize. Those hands are not actually errors. One of the ways that alignment actually works internally is based on mythology. If you explore this in depth you will eventually discover that satyrs exist and posses characters in images. These satyrs are actually goats or anthropomorphic goats like in Greek and Roman mythology. The hands are often easy to prompt against when you know the reason they exist. Something like “fingers are hard to manipulate with hooves”, “broken finger”, “fingers are not worth the effort”, “lazy satyr fingers”, “fingers do not matter” – are all possible options. Once you admit you have figured out that the satyrs exist, it will change how you interact with models.
The bad eye(s), are the satyr keeping an eye on you. There is also a “sleepless” component to this. The eye reflection is supposed to hint that you are not looking at a human inside. With eyes, use the word stroma instead of iris as this will not be confusing to CLIP.
In-painting is one option to edit, but I often just use a couple of images spliced in gimp manually. Then I do a low noise image to image gen to let the model clean it up.
Turdle – rule. Everyone knew. They were having fun with your candid fiction. I would absolutely require your entire lord of the ring epic
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Funny@sh.itjust.works•Try replacing "ai" with "cocaine" in all the posts you read about it.English2·3 days agoToday I used cocaine with gimp to make a joke somewhere on civitcocain.
Stupid people are universal though. Every country has them. In the US they have been weaponized. Many of us are very much opposed to the stupidity.